Haliplectus algoensis

 

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
       Plectida
Haliplectoidea
            Haliplectidae
  
       Haliplectus algoensis Swart, Heyns & Furstenberg, 1992
 
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Morphology and Anatomy:

Female:

  • Body attenuated at both ends.
  • Lips amalgamated.
  • Two whorls of minute cephalic sensilla visible on head.
  • Amphid aperture unispiral, situated 2,5 head widths from anterior end.
  • Buccal cavity (stoma) a long, narrow, sclerotized tube, ending in the posterior half of the median bulb.
  • One small tooth at base of the stoma.
  • Median bulb small, oval with a joint-like structure within its lumen.
  •  Isthmus tubular.
  •  Basal bulb spherical, muscular, with elongated valvular apparatus with transversely striated plates.
  • Valve plates horizontally divided, with division reaching into musculature of basal bulb, giving the bulb a bipartite or jointed appearance.
  • Cardia distinct.
  • Intestine thick-walled with large granules within its cells.
  • Lateral field wide, about 30% of body diameter, with two rows of somatic pores, one row dorsosublaterally and one row in a ventrosublateral position.
  • Didelphic, amphidelphic
  • Tail conoid, curved ventrally

Male:

  • General morphology as for female
  • Diorchic, with testes outstretched, anterior testis the larger,
  • Spicules arcuate, gubernaculum present, no bursa.

 

 

  Haliplectus algoensis: male anterior, left; female anterior (right).
From Swart et al., 1992


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Distribution:

Reported from pools between coastal sand dunes in South Africa,

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Feeding:

 
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Life Cycle:

 

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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References:

Swart A., Heyns, J., Furstenberg, J.P. 1992. Studies on Haliplectus Cobb, 1913. Description of Haliplectus algoensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Haliplectidae, Suborder Leptolaimina). A. African. J. Zoology 27: 41-44.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: February 22, 2024.